Hi @Greg Booth,
The sites you list at level 14 are My sites.
- http://webapplicationURL/personal/{username}: personal site collection
- http://webapplicationURL/mysites: My Site Host site collection
To upgrade My sites to SharePoint2016, see this article: Upgrade My Sites to SharePoint Server 2016. In your case, you should make a little change in step 6 under Upgrade My Sites.
Set the compatibility range settings for site creation on the My Sites web application. Use MinCompatibilityLevel = 15 and MaxCompatibilityLevel= 15 for your compatibility range settings.
As per my knowledge, changing the compatibility level from 14 to 15 is impossible. So, you should use MinCompatibilityLevel = 14
and MaxCompatibilityLevel= 15 for your compatibility range settings. Then go on your upgrade steps.
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Hi -
Thanks for your help.
i thought that i would have to upgrade these sites where they are now right now on the sharepoint 2013 instance, before I tried to upgrade to sharepoint 2016, as otherwise the older compatibility mode might block the upgrade. But i understand that you are saying that i can include the site upgrade as part of the upgrade to 2016, and not need to do this beforehand.
Is that correct ?